ICA/CCVQ (Argentina)

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The Cooperative of consumption and housing of Quilmes (CCVQ, in its spanish initials) was created in 1987, when a group of neighbors organized itself to solve housing's needs. The Cooperative is located in the locality of Ezpeleta near Quilmes, situated 17 km from Buenos Aires City (CABA) and very closed (just a few meters) from the highway "Buenos Aires-La Plata ". It is important to say that it is geographically situated in a strategic point: in the second industrial belt of Buenos Aires suburbs, one of the areas more affected by housing deficit.

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October 10th, 1977
Decree-Law 8912/77
October 17th, 1977
Decree-Law 8912 (Territorial management and land use)
October 24th, 1977
Provincial decree-law of territorial ordering and land use
December 10th, 1983
End of the Dictatorship
October 10th, 1983
Radical Party's Provincial government
August 10th, 1984
Constitution of the CCVQ
August 10th, 1984
Constitution of the CCVQ
March 1st 1987

Legal Capacity and buying of land
August 17th, 1989
State reform law, 23.696
July 9th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
June 15th, 1989
Economic and Social Crisis
June 15th, 1989
Economic crisis
July 8th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
July 8th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
June 15th, 1989
Economic crisis
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
March 3th 1993

Infrastructure problems
October 1st, 1993

Public acknowledgments
October 1st, 1993
Municipal interest declaration
July 7th, 1997
Privatization of the National Mortgage Bank
May 10th 1998

self-building and housing allocation: the module system
December 10th, 1999
Presidency of Fernando de la Rua
July 1st, 2000
INAES 2000 award
July 18th, 2000
Waste Recycling project
December 5th, 2001
Community farm project
December 19th, 2001
Social and economic crisis
March 4th, 2002

Specialized working groups
May 25th, 2003
Presidency of Néstor Kirchner
July 8th, 2003

New productive and services projects
June 2nd, 2004
"Manos a la Obra" subsidy
December 1st, 2004
National parlamentary interest declaration
April 6th, 2005
Subsidy for social leaders training
November 9th, 2007
Provincial parlamentary interest declaration
May 20th, 2009
Microcredits subsidies (CONAMI)
August 20th, 2009
Provincial Gross income tax exception

March 1st 1987

Legal Capacity and buying of land

The present CTP is about the moment when the Quilmes Cooperative Limited of consumption and housing obtained its legal capacity, established the cooperative mode and bought the land where the houses will be built.

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5 related events
October 17th, 1977
Decree-Law 8912 (Territorial management and land use)
December 10th, 1983
End of the Dictatorship
October 10th, 1983
Radical Party's Provincial government
August 10th, 1984
Constitution of the CCVQ
June 15th, 1989
Economic crisis
March 3th 1993

Infrastructure problems

This Critical Turning Point, is focus on the problem of the connection to public services of the neighborhood were the Quilmes Cooperative Limited of consumption and housing (Cooperativa de consumo y vivienda Quilmes Ltda.) is located.

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4 related events
October 24th, 1977
Provincial decree-law of territorial ordering and land use
June 15th, 1989
Economic crisis
July 9th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
August 17th, 1989
State reform law, 23.696
October 1st, 1993

Public acknowledgments

After 15 years of trajectory, the CCVQ was awarded by the National Institute of Social Economy and a few years later by the National Senate. These recognitions reinforced their activities and allowed to promote new projects.

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9 related events
October 10th, 1977
Decree-Law 8912/77
October 1st, 1993
Municipal interest declaration
July 1st, 2000
INAES 2000 award
June 2nd, 2004
"Manos a la Obra" subsidy
December 1st, 2004
National parlamentary interest declaration
April 6th, 2005
Subsidy for social leaders training
November 9th, 2007
Provincial parlamentary interest declaration
May 20th, 2009
Microcredits subsidies (CONAMI)
August 20th, 2009
Provincial Gross income tax exception
May 10th 1998

self-building and housing allocation: the module system

In this CTP, the CCVQ developed an innovation that defines the subsequent trajectory of the initiative. They developed a system of housing allocation based on the accumulation of work hours in the activities of self housing and infrastructure in the neighborhood.

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3 related events
July 8th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
July 7th, 1997
Privatization of the National Mortgage Bank
March 4th, 2002

Specialized working groups

Faced with the deep economic and social crisis that affected the country in the early 2000s, the Cooperative created specialized working groups to offering its associates the possibility of learning a trade and promoting the generation of work alternatives.

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4 related events
August 10th, 1984
Constitution of the CCVQ
June 15th, 1989
Economic and Social Crisis
July 8th, 1989
Presidency of Carlos Menem
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
July 8th, 2003

New productive and services projects

From the experience of self-construction of housing, the cooperative initiates new projects not linked to the satisfaction of housing needs. The new projects were oriented to improving their quality of life in the neirbourhood.

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6 related events
March 27th, 1991
Convertibility Law
December 10th, 1999
Presidency of Fernando de la Rua
July 18th, 2000
Waste Recycling project
December 5th, 2001
Community farm project
December 19th, 2001
Social and economic crisis
May 25th, 2003
Presidency of Néstor Kirchner

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ICA/CCVQ (Argentina)

Legal Capacity and buying of land

Infrastructure problems

Public acknowledgments

self-building and housing allocation: the module system